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« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2006, 05:21:35 pm » |
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ah, - you mean along the A-piller but under the rubber trim? I think that is supposed to be sealed by the (haha self adhersive!) rubber trim. If you have enough of it, I'll recommend avoiding joining it in the middle, as it will shrink with time and temperature, and let water in.
When I had my windscreen replaced, it turned out that water had dissolved most of the glue, so we probably could have simply pushed the whole thing out without glue-cutting.
Cars with a leaky sunroof (as mine had years ago) will have water seeping along the underside of the roof towards the front corners, where it will follow the A-pillar, and most likely find its way into the cabin or at least the glovecompartment. Thats also a drain, - of sorts :-)
I have since replaced the roof with one without the sunroof, which gives me a watertight car, with more headroom :-)
PS: The guy replacing my windscreen also (on his own motivation) searched out another rubbertrim for the top-section, which covers the leading edge of the roof in a very convincing way. I think he said that trim was an Audi thing. Looks very nice.
/Lennart
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2006, 08:13:46 pm » |
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Can you make photo ?
Sorry for the wait, - I kept forgetting to take my camera with me to work - as it had to be "daylight" for the picture, and daylight is pretty limited this time of year. However, borrowed a friends camera today, and here you go. The minimal light unfortunately caused the picture to be taken wide-open, so depth of focus is limited, so is sharpness, but it is still easy to see how the new un-original (Audi?) top rubber trim covers the leading edge of the roof panel completely, which IMO looks quite nice. The remaining rubbertrim is original but "new", and it fits as poorly as ever, and the adhersive tape has seen better days. Definitely room for improvements here too, would be great if all the rubbertrim was as nice as the top one.
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Lennart.Sorth@matrasport.dk Murena 1983 1.9i silver (under restoration) // Honda e '20 Charge Yellow // VW Polo '22 1.0 tsi silver// Used to own: Espace J63 2.1td, Espace 2.2dci "The Race"
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